1962 Memorial Service & Singers

Yale Class of 1962
50th Reunion
May 31 – June 3, 2012

Peter Sipple,  Music Programs

January 2012

Dear Classmate:

A Memorial Service, honoring the memories of our deceased classmates, will take place Friday afternoon of our reunion weekend.  I am organizing this service. If you are interested in participating in the service as a reader or speaker, please let me know by March 15, using the contact information noted below.

The Memorial Service will also include one or two sung anthems by a choral group comprised of our membership.  Whether or not you sang at Yale, you are invited to join us to rehearse and perform this music.  Our classmate and long-time choral director, John Stewart, will lead us. To complement our male voices, we’d like to welcome wives, daughters, and other significant women in our lives to join the singing; the music we’ll perform will be in four-part SATB harmony—that is, they will include women’s voices, sopranos and altos. To make planning possible, we’d like to know by no later than March 15 via email (sipplemp@gmail.com) the names and voice parts of those who would like to sing.

If you’d like to play a role in the Memorial Service as a reader, speaker, or both, please contact me by March 15 via email: sipplemp@gmail.com.  I will get back to you soon afterwards with additional information.

In addition, our reunion will offer yet another opportunity for those interested in singing (you need not have sung at Yale).  As part of the entertainment taking place on Saturday evening, we’ll put together a “class glee club” (TTBB, that is, men’s voices only) to prepare and perform three or four Yale songs (selections from the Yale Song Book), under John Stewart’s direction.  There will be a special rehearsal for this group as well.  If you would like to take part in our class glee club, please email me, again by March 15, at sipplemp@gmail.com.  Dan Koenigsberg is working with me on the Saturday evening singing program.

Margaret and Peter Sipple
45 Bayview Avenue
Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520
845-534-2864
sipplemp@gmail.com

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